Our Investigation: Michigan Never Truly Counted Nursing Home Deaths. Toll Could Be 100% Higher. – No BS News Hour – May 26, 2021
No BS Newshour with Charlie LeDuff
Charlie LeDuff
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every hour, only hour, when we listen and gain our knowledge and power, we turn to the no-bushed power. |
| 0:18.0 | No mercy! |
| 0:21.0 | No mercy! |
| 0:28.0 | No mercy! |
| 0:41.0 | No mercy! |
| 0:44.0 | Public, let's just start breaking news. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, all right, all right, everybody. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a special memorial day program here in the no-bushed news hour. |
| 1:02.0 | So this is your Friday show coming Wednesday. |
| 1:04.0 | We figured we had to do it today. |
| 1:07.0 | Today's the big news. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to now, we're going to tell you right now that the state of Michigan has been tanking those nursing home numbers all along. |
| 1:19.0 | They were counting them back last summer, realized, well, I don't know what they realized. |
| 1:27.0 | The numbers were so high and then they stopped counting. |
| 1:32.0 | So the state did a limited review of all deaths found about half of them they looked at went back to the nursing homes and then they stopped doing it. |
| 1:43.0 | So the nursing home numbers you're getting are simply the ones that the nursing homes are copying to and that's it. |
| 1:51.0 | So we're going to have a round up here with my good panel now and lawyers, Steve DeLie, from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and this is big. |
| 2:02.0 | Get ready. You're going to have the norm array of nursing home nurses. |
| 2:08.0 | What do we call it? Jessica? |
| 2:10.0 | Jessica. |
| 2:11.0 | Yes. |
| 2:12.0 | I remember nurse Jessica. |
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